Saint Vincent and Grenadines
A five-year EU-funded programme is helping to prevent blindness in some of the poorer countries of the Caribbean region; Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica and St. Lucia. It is being coordinated by the United Kingdom based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Sightsavers International, with its partners in the Caribbean.
The multi-faceted project is funding a range of measures from the training of...
Brussels was the location picked for the annual summit of the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO), 13-15 March. The intention was to draw attention of the EU to the “critically important role of tourism in the region to livelihood and poverty alleviation,” said Hugh Riley Chief Executive Officer of the Barbados-based CTO which represents 33 member countries and many private sector...
Most visitors to the Caribbean are shocked that it costs just as much to travel by air between the tropical islands as it would to North America. Is there any choice?
More than ever before Caribbean nationals have been calling for improved connections between the islands, reduced taxes on travel and an informed policy on regional travel from Governments of the CARICOM[i] trading bloc....
In December 2010, Ralph Gonsalves won a third term as Prime Minister of the Eastern Caribbean state of St.Vincent and the Grenadines for the United Labour Party. In a recent interview with The Courier in the capital Kingstown, he highlighted that greater political will is needed in the region to hasten the pace of Caribbean integration.
Born in the village of Colonarie, in St. Vincent...
The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the 15 member states of the Caribbean Forum for African, Caribbean and Pacific states (CARIFORUM) is to date the only ‘full’ EPA signed with the European Union (EU). This is the reason why other ACP regions are examining its bottlenecks and benefits two years after coming on stream.
Branford Isaacs, Head of the Guyana-based...
Caribbean’s private sector gets a boost
Some leading International Financial Institutions have come together to set up a $US850M (€696M) action plan to boost private sector investment across the Caribbean region. The European Investment Bank (EIB), the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), the Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO), the International Finance Corporation (IFC)...
Eastern Caribbean farmers slate “done deal”
A tariff deal between Latin American countries and the European Union (EU) in December 2009 in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva hails the end of a 15-year banana trade dispute, one of the longest-ever global trade wars. Eastern Caribbean farmers hit out.
The core of the deal agreed by the EU and Latin American Ambassadors...
Caribbean investment experts are predicting tough times ahead for the region’s three leading equity markets in Barbados, Trinidad and Jamaica, as major economies in the United States and Europe continue to experience downturns.
© Bernard Babb
Against a background of external shocks – caused by rising energy and food costs and contraction in North Atlantic economies – leading investment firms...
The onset of the European Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with the ACP regions is still an unknown quantity for banana producers of the ACP group. We asked those in the industry what’s at stake as the umbrella of the Banana Protocol unfolds.
On paper, the EU’s duty-free, quota-free offer under an EPA with Cariforum countries looks generous, says Renwick Rose, St. Vincent-based...
Debate on Darfur and Zimbabwe was heated. Topical discussion on EU-ACP free trade agreements, migration, the management of natural resources and poverty reduction for small farmers at the 13th session of ACP-EU Joint Assembly (JPA) was animated. The excited talk belied the calm venue, the Kurhaus casino, in the German spa town of Wiesbaden, Hessen, 23–28 June.
A sense of purpose hung...
A five-year EU-funded programme is helping to prevent blindness in some of the poorer countries of the Caribbean region; Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica and St. Lucia. It is being coordinated by the United Kingdom based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Sightsavers International, with its partners in the Caribbean.
The multi-faceted project is funding a range of measures from the training of...
Brussels was the location picked for the annual summit of the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO), 13-15 March. The intention was to draw attention of the EU to the “critically important role of tourism in the region to livelihood and poverty alleviation,” said Hugh Riley Chief Executive Officer of the Barbados-based CTO which represents 33 member countries and many private sector...
Most visitors to the Caribbean are shocked that it costs just as much to travel by air between the tropical islands as it would to North America. Is there any choice?
More than ever before Caribbean nationals have been calling for improved connections between the islands, reduced taxes on travel and an informed policy on regional travel from Governments of the CARICOM[i] trading bloc....
In December 2010, Ralph Gonsalves won a third term as Prime Minister of the Eastern Caribbean state of St.Vincent and the Grenadines for the United Labour Party. In a recent interview with The Courier in the capital Kingstown, he highlighted that greater political will is needed in the region to hasten the pace of Caribbean integration.
Born in the village of Colonarie, in St. Vincent...
The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the 15 member states of the Caribbean Forum for African, Caribbean and Pacific states (CARIFORUM) is to date the only ‘full’ EPA signed with the European Union (EU). This is the reason why other ACP regions are examining its bottlenecks and benefits two years after coming on stream.
Branford Isaacs, Head of the Guyana-based...
Caribbean’s private sector gets a boost
Some leading International Financial Institutions have come together to set up a $US850M (€696M) action plan to boost private sector investment across the Caribbean region. The European Investment Bank (EIB), the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), the Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO), the International Finance Corporation (IFC)...
Eastern Caribbean farmers slate “done deal”
A tariff deal between Latin American countries and the European Union (EU) in December 2009 in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva hails the end of a 15-year banana trade dispute, one of the longest-ever global trade wars. Eastern Caribbean farmers hit out.
The core of the deal agreed by the EU and Latin American Ambassadors...
Caribbean investment experts are predicting tough times ahead for the region’s three leading equity markets in Barbados, Trinidad and Jamaica, as major economies in the United States and Europe continue to experience downturns.
© Bernard Babb
Against a background of external shocks – caused by rising energy and food costs and contraction in North Atlantic economies – leading investment firms...
The onset of the European Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with the ACP regions is still an unknown quantity for banana producers of the ACP group. We asked those in the industry what’s at stake as the umbrella of the Banana Protocol unfolds.
On paper, the EU’s duty-free, quota-free offer under an EPA with Cariforum countries looks generous, says Renwick Rose, St. Vincent-based...
Debate on Darfur and Zimbabwe was heated. Topical discussion on EU-ACP free trade agreements, migration, the management of natural resources and poverty reduction for small farmers at the 13th session of ACP-EU Joint Assembly (JPA) was animated. The excited talk belied the calm venue, the Kurhaus casino, in the German spa town of Wiesbaden, Hessen, 23–28 June.
A sense of purpose hung...
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